Greenville company awarded National Cancer Institute contract

3:28 PM,
Oct. 25, 2013

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Greenville-based Kivatec Inc. has been awarded a $295,000 contract to establish 3D breast cancer models using living cells directly from breast cancer patients.

The contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), was awarded under the Small Business Innovative Research ("SBIR") Program to establish patient-derived, 3D micro-tumors designed to be used to screen anticancer drugs during development and to test patient-derived samples in real time to assist clinical decision making.

The goal of thes contract, titled "3D Human Tumor Co-Culture System for Accurate Prediction of ...